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normalaccount

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Registered: 2020-11-12

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Removing text with the backspace key is slow; any solution for that?

Hey,

Y'know when you're trying to remove a line of text by holding the backspace key, there's 1- a huge delay before it actually starts removing text and 2- it removes text at a slow rate.

I was wondering if there was a way to make this backspace key faster and more responsive. Haven't found anything about it online.

Thanks for the help.

Last edited by normalaccount (2020-11-16 04:49:01)

GaKu999

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Re: Removing text with the backspace key is slow; any solution for that?

You could change the waiting time, but the how depends on your setup.
I would have to change the input piece in sway config for example, what is your setup?

In the case of Xorg, relevant wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Configuration
In the case of wayland, check your WM configuration.

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In the case of some DE, do tell which & check if there's some GUI to configure that.

Last edited by GaKu999 (2020-11-16 05:56:06)

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seth

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Re: Removing text with the backspace key is slow; any solution for that?

Also context.
It's usually much fater to use word/line selection and delete the block.
For terminals see eg. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/540 … -selection

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deschain

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Registered: 2020-11-15

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Re: Removing text with the backspace key is slow; any solution for that?

Just a heads up, when you hold down Ctrl, you can scroll through a word at a time instead of a character at a time using left and right arrows. And this includes using backspace with Ctrl.

As for your keyboard key repetition not being fast enough, I know on KDE you can go to System Settings > Keyboard and adjust the speed of the repetition. What WM/DM are you using?

normalaccount

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Re: Removing text with the backspace key is slow; any solution for that?

Hey,

I'm on I3 using GDM as a DM. The xset command for xorg looks interesting though, I'll try it out this morning.
Also thanks deschain for the ctrl advice,  didn't know about that.